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Kitty Mahone


Date: 1900
Type: Musical
Rating: N/A
Colour: Black and White
Director: Walter Gibbons
Producer:

Comment/Synopsis

The music hall star Lil Hawthorne sing Kitty Malone in this only surviving example of a sound recording synced with film from Victorian Nritain. Walter Gibboms made a number of these phono bio tableaux, but this is the only one that remains. It is the oldest surviving British film with sound years before the advent of talkies.

Actors


Lil Hawthorne

Oscars

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